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Eartha

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Eartha has been given to 2,952 babies in the U.S. since 1905. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 108 recorded.

Babies named Eartha, 2020

1 in 668,000

Eartha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eartha: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Eartha means

Eartha is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

19th-century coinage from earth + -a. Best known for the American singer Eartha Kitt.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Eartha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Eartha is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Eartha is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eartha is pronounced /ˈɝθə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,920 girls were recorded with the name Eartha between 1905 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 108 in 1955; its best national rank was #819 in 1939.

In the United States, 32 boys were recorded with the name Eartha between 1925 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1925; its best national rank was #3,211 in 1944.

How common is Eartha?

Eartha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eartha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eartha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Earthas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eartha was born before 1946 — so the typical Eartha is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.17%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,297
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1950s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (744).

Is Eartha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1955 (108)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#819
1939

Spellings of Eartha

Eartha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 59.6% against Eartha's 0.32%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eartha is used

Across 1910–2025, Eartha was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,174 girls, against 1 in 52,136 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

046 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 2,174
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 33,333
  5. 5Delaware1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eartha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eartha around the world

Where Eartha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Eartha

People whose public names include Eartha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Eartha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eartha. Linked forms have their own page here.

TerraErta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eartha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#819
1939
Peak year
1955
108 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
2,920
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,211
1944
Peak year
1925
6 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1953
All-time count
32
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eartha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EarlieEarleanTalithaAgathaReathaEarleenBirthaGerthaEarlArethaHerthaKeithaLeathaTamathaRuthaDorthaAlethaEarlaOlethaEarnestAlthaOrethaEarnieTabetha

Names with a curve like Eartha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eartha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PhylissFrediaKathernVonnieGeorgineMarilouThomasinePhillisDorettaGaynellDorineNancie

Sibling names for Eartha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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